Package: idn
Version: 1.15-2
Severity: wishlist

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$ idn тест.рф
libidn 1.15
Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Simon Josefsson.
GNU Libidn comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
You may redistribute copies of GNU Libidn under the terms of
the GNU Lesser General Public License.  For more information
about these matters, see the file named COPYING.LIB.
xn--e1aybc.xn--p1ai
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This output is way too verbose and makes it difficult to quickly locate the
result itself from a glance. Also no other similar utility (whois/host/dig)
print licensing notices when ran in default mode of operation, common practice
is to simply print the result of operation, making the output as concise as
possible.

I do not believe the GPLv3 license of Libidn really requires you to print this
notice, because per section 5d:

1) it may not be required in interactive mode (launched simply as "idn"),
because the original work (Libidn) did NOT have any "interactive user
interfaces";

2) it is not required when running idn as "idn domain.tld", because that way
it does NOT present an "interactive user interface", the program just displays
the result and exits.


--- System information. ---
Architecture: amd64
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.37.2-rm1

Debian Release: 6.0

--- Package information. ---
Depends       (Version) | Installed
=======================-+-===========
libc6        (>= 2.2.5) | 2.11.2-10
libidn11      (>= 1.13) | 1.15-2


Package's Recommends field is empty.

Package's Suggests field is empty.

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With respect,
Roman

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